Peter Windsor analyses data from race simulations at COTA and other performance trends | 2022 US GP. Peter Windsor analyses data from race simulations at COTA.

It was a bit of a strange Friday in Austin, Texas, at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) what with the naming of the Andretti Corner postponed due to flight delays; drivers like Scuderia Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc sitting-out the first free practice session for the United States Grand Prix and then all the teams running a long and relatively tedious Pirelli tyre test in the second practice session at COTA.

About the only driver who had fun, indeed, was Ferrari’s Charles, who made up for lost ground at the start of FP2 by instantly matching (on medium tyres) the soft-tyre time set by his Maranello team-mate, Carlos Sainz, in FP1. Friday was unusual in another way, too, because more teams than normal ran long fuel runs in FP1 thanks to the Pirelli work scheduled for FP2. Formula 1 expert Peter Windsor in this video analyses the data from those runs in addition to some of the other key performance trends.

— see video above —